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Publication Designing Sustainable Landscapes: Modeling Ecological Integrity(2018-01-01) McGarigal, Kevin; Compton, Brad; Plunkett, Ethan; DeLuca, Bill; Grand, JoannaIntegrity [updated 3/7/2017] -- This document describes our coarse filter assessment based on the concept of landscape ecological integrity. Here, we define ecological integrity and the four major components of integrity that we quantify: intactness, resiliency, ecosystem diversity and adaptive capacity, and describe the various indices used to quantify each component.Publication Designing Sustainable Landscapes: Modeling Focal Species(2018-01-01) McGarigal, Kevin; Compton, Brad; Plunkett, Ethan; DeLuca, Bill; Grand, JoannaSpecies [updated 3/7/2017] -- This document describes our species-based assessment based on the concept of landscape capability for a suite of representative species. Here, we define landscape capability and the methods used to measure each component for each species. In addition, here we link to detailed documentation of the landscape capability model developed for each representative species.Publication Designing Sustainable Landscapes: Climate Data(2018-01-01) McGarigal, Kevin; Compton, Brad; Plunkett, Ethan; DeLuca, Bill; Grand, JoannaClimate [updated 5/9/2018] -- This document describes how we model climate change. More specifically, this document describes the source of the climate change data that we are using and the methods we are applying to downscale the data to meet our needs.Publication Designing Sustainable Landscapes: Modeling Urban Growth(2018-01-01) McGarigal, Kevin; Compton, Brad; Plunkett, Ethan; DeLuca, Bill; Grand, Joanna1. Urban growth [update under development] -- This document describes how we model urban growth.Publication Designing Sustainable Landscapes: Ecological Systems(2018-01-01) McGarigal, Kevin; Compton, Brad; Plunkett, Ethan; DeLuca, Bill; Grand, JoannaEcological systems [updated 3/7/2017] --This document provides a summary of our use of ecological systems as an organizational framework for portions of the model. Here, we briefly introduce the concept of ecological systems and the challenges of using them as an organizational framework, and then briefly outline four alternatives (that we considered) for their use in the model, including a summary of the advantages and disadvantages of each, and the final adopted alternative.